Status Report

NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE Imagery Release 9 January 2008

By SpaceRef Editor
January 9, 2008
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NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE Imagery Release 9 January 2008
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Onboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the HiRISE camera offers unprecedented image quality, giving us a view of the Red Planet in a way never before seen. It’s the most powerful camera ever to leave Earth’s orbit.


Wrinkle Ridge in Solis Planum
Wrinkle Ridge in Solis Planum
A wrinkle ridge in the Solis Planum, a high-elevation volcanic plain located south of the Valles Marineris canyon system.
 
Central Pit Crater
Central Pit Crater
Impact craters have different morphologies depending on the size of the impactor and the properties of the target material.
 
Winslow Crater: A Not-So-Fresh, Fresh Crater
Winslow Crater: A Not-So-Fresh, Fresh Crater
This fresh impact crater was targeted after examinations of temperature images derived from THEMIS.
 
Hills and Cones in Utopia
Hills and Cones in Utopia
While the terrain in Utopia Planitia is generally smooth and flat, this image shows several hills.
 
Gullies with Sharp Color Contrasts
Gullies with Sharp Color Contrasts
A southern mid-latitude crater, with bright landslides and noticeable boulder tracks.
 
Scalloped Terrain with Layers
Scalloped Terrain with Layers
An area in the northern mid-latitudes of Mars that is marked by large depressions in the mantle.
 


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